His recording of his novelty song "On Top of Spaghetti" was on
Billboard magazine's pop music chart for 9 weeks in 1963, peaking at
#14.
Along with Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Josh White and Burl Ives, Mr. Glazer was a Big City folk singer, one of a loose coalition of performers who made folk music a national phenomenon in the 1940s, presaging its commercial popularity in the 1960s.